Motion picture photography (1927)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion picture photography
Date:
1927
Publisher:
New York : Falk Publishing Company, Inc.
Volume:
Motion picture photography
Leaf #:
00044
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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HISTORY O F OINEM. ATOGRAPHY From this it will be seen that much depends upon the quality of light reflected in photographic work. Refraction — When light passes from one medium to another of different density it is refracted or bent as shown in diagram No. 5. The different colored rays being 'refracted or bent in different degrees. Upon this principle depends the construction of lenses. Dispersion is shown in diagram No. 6 that is, light in passing through a glass prism is separated into its component parts, and Showing the elementary character of a primary color. Primary colors cannot be further resolved into other colors. in case of white light into the spectrum colors violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. Absorption — When light falls on an object which neither reflects, refracts nor transmits, the light is said to be absorbed. No known substance is an absolute absorber of light ; that is, an absolute non-reflector. A flat or matte black surface comes the nearest to being a total absorber of light, but it is not possible to paint an object so black but what sufficient light will be reflected from it to reveal its details when brilliantly illuminated. Thus we see that what we call blackness is not caused by no light reaching the eye but when very little does. The blackest object